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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Michael Straube <michael.straube@posteo.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: fix brace coding style issues
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:24:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180625122453.souir6wzzyhbkj4m@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VeASBAsBrrq65qhkAGXHoSE8Hg-9dSGcgjT2bNND-1MBw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:47:44PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 08:21:55PM +0200, Michael Straube wrote:
> >> Remove braces from single line if statements.
> >> Also fix a comparsion to NULL in one of the conditions.
> >> Issues found by checkpatch.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Michael Straube <michael.straube@posteo.de>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_debug.c | 6 ++----
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_debug.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_debug.c
> >> index f852fde47350..2244ed72ab9c 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_debug.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_debug.c
> >> @@ -618,9 +618,8 @@ ssize_t proc_set_wait_hiq_empty(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, si
> >>       if (count < 1)
> >>               return -EFAULT;
> >>
> >> -     if (buffer && !copy_from_user(tmp, buffer, sizeof(tmp))) {
> >> +     if (buffer && !copy_from_user(tmp, buffer, sizeof(tmp)))
> >>               sscanf(tmp, "%u", &g_wait_hiq_empty);
> >> -     }
> >
> >
> > The original code is kind of bad.  The NULL check isn't required.
> > The sscanf call should have error checking.  The error code is wrong if
> > the copy from user fails.  The tmp buffer isn't NUL terminated.
> >
> >         if (copy_from_user(tmp, buffer, sizeof(tmp)))
> >                 return -EFAULT;
> >         tmp[sizeof(tmp) - 1] = '\0';
> >
> >         if (sscanf(tmp, "%u", &g_wait_hiq_empty) != 1)
> >                 return -EINVAL;
> >
> >         return count;
> 
> Shouldn't this be
> 
> kstrtouint_from_user()
> 
> instead of all those lines?

I wasn't sure kstrtoint() was the exact same as sscanf()...  If so then
sure.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-25 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-21 18:21 Michael Straube
2018-06-22 10:28 ` Dan Carpenter
2018-06-22 13:27   ` Michael Straube
2018-06-23  8:40     ` Dan Carpenter
2018-06-25  9:47   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-06-25 12:24     ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2018-06-26 19:09       ` Andy Shevchenko

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